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Both Kossack and Roach spent rest of war as POW's Joe- on your F4U - it was captured by Japanese and transported via sub. On the B-17s I believe the D was captured at Java, not the Phillipines and I have no idea regarding the B-17E's but we lost a few at Truk for sure. Maybe they were repaired... I don't believe the 19th BG had B-17Es in Phillipines - only at Port Moresby and Guadalcanal? Last edited by drgondog; 01-01-2008 at 06:02 PM. | |
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Exactly which submarine did the Japanese carve up in order to stuff even pieces of an F4U . . . and can you cite a TROM to go along with your statement?
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| The only japanese sub that I can think of that would even come close to carrying an aircraft as big as a corsair would be the I-400 series submarine.
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| None of which ever made it to Germany
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| Senior Member | Siebel Si 204D captured by the Russians
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| I realize I am late on this but that is a B-17, probably one of the first squadron to be shipped to the Pacific Theater that would make it a B model witch did not have a tail gun. They looked a lot like the prototype. |
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| I must remember to look at some stage because I have some other interesting odd ones somewhere... |
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| No the B17 C and D had that tail too, w/out tail gunner and with no ball turret. Last edited by kool kitty89; 04-21-2008 at 01:32 PM. |
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| Senior Member | This is from Luftwaffe im Focus 3/2003 During campaigns in Norway and France, the Luftwaffe captured an unknown number of Curtiss H75A fighters. At least six of these aircraft were sent directly to Rechlin for testing. Other Curtiss fighters were assigned to III./JG 77, which, following the campaign in Norway was based at Döberitz to protect the capital. The newly-formed 7. Staffel flew the Curtiss fighters as operational aircraft in September and October 1940. Their value as combat aircraft was virtualy nil, however, as the lack of ammunition belts for the aircraft's machine-guns prevented them from being armed. In early November 1940, therefore, 7. Staffel re-equiped with the BF 109E-7. After the failure of the experiment of using the aircraft as an operational type, a handful were transferred to the Replacement Training Fighter Gruppe in Merseburg and to JFS 1, a fighter training school based in Werneuchen. The bulk of captured Curtiss fighters were sold to Finland in the second half of 1941. Our photograph depicts one of the Curtiss H75A fighters sent to JFS 1 in Werneuchen. When the photoghraph was taken is unknown. Note the previously unidentified ''Walking Stick and Top Hat'' emblem. This emblem was used by JFS 1, however only a few of the school's aircraft are known to have worn it in 1941 (Ar 96 and Bf 109D). Unfortunately, no further information concerning the origins or significance of the emblem has so far come to light. To date, only one Curtiss H75A, coded +68 is known to have been at Werneuchen, the information coming from a pilot's logbook.
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| Senior Member | I've never seen that plane before o_o
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| A lot of planes I haven't really seen as well. Really interesting looking at these topics. |
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| KLM DC3 Mees (PH-ASM) captured by the Germans in 1940.
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| Senior Member | FW190 in British markings:
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